The Day Rang-A-Tang Saved Charlie Chaplin!!

Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog, and his handler, Hy, are trying to help out a Hollywood studio...

Wow, Charlie Chaplin Harly Shaplyn!!

Now, this is interesting, as obviously the real Chaplin did make a classic film mocking Hitler and Mussolini, The Great Dictator. But while that film didn't debut until October of 1940, this comic--Blue Ribbon Comics #6--hit the streets in July of 1940, which means the story was likely produced a month or two earlier! Obviously the Chaplin film had been getting a fair amount of pre-publicity!!

Any, Chaplin's Shaplyn's film has been getting some threats:

And if there are threats...

...you can count on Rang-A-Tang to thwart them!!

GOOD DOG!!

But we never find out what happened to the real Stark Brable film...

Why Rang-A-Tang Is The Best Dog Ever!

Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog is in Hollywood, because he's so cool and famous they're going to make a movie about him!!

Ah, but there have been a series of suspicious accidents plaguing the studio. And so...

Good. Dog.

Your move, Lassie and Krypto!!

From Blue Ribbon Comics #5 (1940)

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Dog Poop!!

You know whom we haven't checked in with for awhile?

Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog!!

Man, I love Rang-A-Tang!!

Anyway, as was the style back in those days, Blue Ribbon Comics started a club to attract dimes from their young readers:

Hey, it's all harmless, and they seem to have a good cause, and the right attitude, and--

Wait... what's that!?!?

"Bowel Functions"?!?! BOWEL FUNCTIONS?!!?!?!?!

Look, I'm not sure what kind of information you're looking for here, especially in the small space provided. Size? Frequency? Consistency? Smell?

I'm just saying, it used to be acceptable in this country to encourage children to write in and describe their dogs' poop. What a country...

Ad from Blue Ribbon Comics #17 (1941)

Manic Monday Bonus--Rang-A-Tang Vs. A Dying Elephant!

You know whom we haven't checked in with for a while?

Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog, that's who!

Let's tune in at a circus confrontation, as little person Shrimpo Shires is about to get busted for multiple murders. Except he has a big ally on his side!
 

Now that's choosing your friends wisely!

Fortunately, he's not the smartest elephant...

Ohs nos!!

Woo hoo, Rang-A-Tang is faster than a collapsing elephant!!

But why did the pachyderm die?

Let that be a lesson...don't carry strychnine in your pocket!!

From Blue Ribbon Comics #12 (1941)

Rang-A-Tang Would Kill At Charades

It has come to our attention that not enough of you are properly impressed with Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog. Why, I've got a paltry ZERO votes for his Friday Night Fight over at Spacebooger's crib so far!!

So, allow me to re-emphasize for you just why Rang-A-Tang is so special.

In a true Scooby Doo plot writ 3 decades early, someone is staging a bunch of accidents to cause the collapse of Mammoth Pictures studio. Whoever could it be?

With our decades of hindsight, it's obvious that the arrogant, beret-wearing, pipe-smoking twit is the guilty party, right? Perhaps not so obvious in 1940, tough...

Anyhow, Rang-A-Tang is the only...person...to have actually seen the culprit in the flesh. But dogs can't talk, so the perp is in no danger, right?

WRONG. This is Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog:







Scooby Doo, you're not fit to eat Rang-A-tang's poop!!

BONUS: In the climactic showdown...

...Rang-A-Tang kills his ass!!

Rang-A-Tang 2, Scooby Doo ZERO.

FACT: You do NOT $%^&* with Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog!!!!!

From Blue Ribbon Comics #5 (1940)

Friday Night Fights--Rang-A-Tang Style!!

Well, since I've grown tired of waiting for Spacebooger to declare an all-animal round of Friday Night Fights, I've got to take matters into my own hands!

If you've read this blog long enough, you know that one of the most important rules in the universe is that you do not %^&* with Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog!! This week, we'll learn that even the king of beasts must bow to Rang-A-Tang's powers!!

Rang-A-Tang and his "master" are visiting a Hollywood set, when danger strikes!!

BAM!! The mighty lion, king of all beasts--beaten by Rang-A-Tang without a single blow!! Even Simba would not dare not mess with RANG-A-TANG, THE WINDER DOG!!!!

I'm sure Spacebooger is now considering making the next bout all animals...

Joe Blair and Ed Smalle show why Rang-A-Tang is the true king of all beasts in Blue Ribbon Comics #5 (1940).

Now, there's one very good reason you should vote for my fight this week. Why? BECAUSE RANG-A-TANG SAYS YOU SHOULD. And you don't want to make him angry...so vote.

Golden Age idol--Rang A Tang The Wonder Dog

I'll just put this as simply as I can:

YOU DO NOT @#$% WITH RANG A TANG THE WONDER DOG!!

That is all.

From Blue Ribbon Comics #3 (1940), by Will Harr and Jack Binder.